James Sult

Mr. Sult joined Western Alliance Bank in 2011 to expand the municipal finance effort within the bank. He has successfully built the municipal lending platform and has grown the portfolio to its current level of nearly $1 billion of municipal direct placement bonds. A 20-year municipal finance veteran, Mr. Sult was recently a Senior Vice President at Piper Jaffray & Co. in their public finance investment banking group. He has also worked as an investment banker in the corporate sector focusing on the airline and aerospace industries and was also a consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers focusing on bankruptcy and corporate restructuring. Mr. Sult has a BSBA in Finance from the University of Arizona and an MBA from Georgetown University.